Improvement in sectional dinner-pails



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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

CHARLES H. AMANN, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SECTIONAL DINNER-PAILS.

Speccation forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,616, dated Jaruary 12,1875; application filed September 26, 1874.

To allwhom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES H. AMANN, of Columbus, in the county ofFranklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Sectional Dinner-Fails; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operationof the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partof this specification, and to the letters and igures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a vertical sectional viewof my dinner-pail. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig.' 3 is a view of thepail packed for transportation or storage.

This invention has relation to dinner-pails of the kind which arecomposed ot' several shallow pans or sections, made so that they willfit one Within another, in order that they may be packed in a slnallspace. My improvement consists in hooked spring connectingstrips andretaining pins, in combination with a spring-bail, whereby a very simpleand efficient attachment is obtained, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the drawings annexed heretoA A A A designate shallow sections orpans, which are made so that they can be fitted one within the other, asshown in Figs. l and 3. When arranged in the form of a pail, as shown byFig. 1, their dan ged bottoms receive the rims, so as to prevent sidedisplacement. The top pan, A, has a cover, a, and the bottom pan haseyes d d, diametrically opposite each other,

for the purpose of receiving the hooked ends e c of two spring-strips, CC. These strips are hinged at b b to the ends of a spring-bail, B, and,near the hinges, holes are made, which receive pins c c on the uppersection, A. The four sections composing the pail are held securelytogether by means ofthe strips C C, and the upper ends of these stripsare held in place on the pins ccby the spring action of the bail B.

By spreading the ends of the bail, and detaching the strips C C from thetop and bottom sections, the four sections can be separated, and thethree lower sections, together with the bail and its strips, can bepacked i11- side of the top section, A.

I am aware that a sectional dinner-pail is not new, nor each sectionhaving its own bottom, and therefore I do not claim such invention,broadly; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y Thecombination of the detachable pan-sec tions A A A A', the lower section,A', provided with eyes d` d, and the upper section, A, having pins c c,the detachable hooked and perforated strips C C, and the, spring-bail B,substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two Witnesses.

' CHARLES H. AMANN.

Witnesses:

I. I. VOGELGESENG, J. P. REMMY.

